London & Dundee: John Leng & Company, [1932]. Thick octavo, 252 pages. Illustrated throughout. First edition. A cookbook with a preliminary calendar for the year 1933. Not quite an almanac/cookbook but in that vicinity. This is the only year for which we can find any record, so the annual aspect of the book was short-lived. The illustrations throughout include color illustrations of various dishes, and black and white photographic illustrations.....
A Paris: Chez Giguet et Michaud, Imprimeurs-Libraires, rue des Bons-enfans, no. 6, 1803 (an 11.). Duodecimo (14 x 9 cm.), 176 pages. Frontispiece. Prefatory letter in verse, signed: "J.B. ...", i.e. Joseph Berchoux. Second edition, revised and enlarged).With the famous frontispiece engraved by Bovinet, on which the caption reads, "Le Senat mit aux voix cette affaire importante et le turbot fut mis a la sauce piquant [trans: the Senate put.....
Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Company, 1913. Biggle Farm Library Number Two. Duodecimo (14 x 9.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated in black & white and color. Index. Stated fifth edition, but evident second edition, second printing; originally issued in 1894. A basic and popular introduction to growing berries, including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes and other small fruits. Light age-toning to the interior; in blue cloth, titled and decorated in.....
New York: Brentano's; [Press of Strauss & Klee, 1891]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 12 cm.), 46 pages. FIRST TRADE EDITION, previously issued privately by the author in a number of printings, starting in 1884. A lovely little confectionery book, with recipes for traditional, old-fashioned sweets, as well as "the varieties of bon-bons to be found at the leading confectioners in New York, Paris and London." Toning to endpapers, small ink date.....
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. Octavo, 368 pages. First edition. The Latin American (and Brazilian and Caribbean) offering from the prolific Browns. In the years before Brown joined his sister and mother to write the cookbooks, he was editor of a successful business journal in Brazil, and traveled throughout South America. He also known for his work as an avant-garde poet, and for his invention of a "reading.....
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934. Squarish octavo (20.5 x 17cm.), ix, [3], 116, [1] pages. Photographically illustrated. FIRST UK EDITION, simultaneously issued with the American of Appleton Century. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of interior.....
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. First. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks.....
New York: the author/Cornwall Press, 1939. Octavo, 136 pages. FIRST EDITION of this third installment of self-published barroom tales from Joe Madden. All of the the dust jacket blurbs are supplied by Joe Madden. Madden's bartending world is rough and tumble, occasionally crass and frequently politically incorrect. Edges a bit dusty, some light age-toning throughout, otherwise fine in bright orange cloth, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a......
Albany: Theophilus Roessle, 1860. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [6], xxvi, [27]-100 pages. Illustrated with color lithograph frontispiece and three plates, two of which are also in color. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely produced treatise devoted entirely to celery, the only title published under the series "Roessle's Gardener's Hand-Books". The author, the son of a market gardener, emigrated to the United States from Stuttgardt in 1825 at the age of 14.....
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New York: Frank Tousey, Publishe (sic), 1884. Stapled booklet with printed wrappers. 60, [4] pages. First edition. The author is supplied by the LOC records. Warford was the author of a long list of “How To” books in fields as varied as cookery, magic, religious belief and more. With an LOC copyright stamp to the titles page and wrappers, both dated August 22, 1884. Small chip missing from rear panel.....